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Saturday’s Topic: “Space Cookies” & “The Transit of Mercury”
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Space Cookies!.
Discussion Topic of the Evening.
Space Cookies!
The Doubletree Cookie
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5343389.1572553096!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/space-cookies.jpg
More Cookies
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5343397.1572553253!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/cookies-in-space.jpg
Space Exploration and Space History
Tom KE5ICX
Space Exploration News
Nov. 11th: Transit of Mercury
Nov. 8th: The “Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act” was signed into law honoring the women behind the mathematical challenges of space flight.
Composite Picture of Dorothy Vaughan, Kathrine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JEwgytdmjb4EbUu5KEXvvJ-1024-80.jpg
Space-Related Birthdays
Nov. 4th
1916: Walter Cronkite Born
Walter Coronkite in Low Gravity Simulator
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIizurIXkAEgWNM?format=jpg&name=medium
This Week in Space History
Nov. 4th
2003: Massive Solar X-Ray Flare Whipped into Space Detected by GEOS
GOES Solar Flare 11/03/2003 Video
Astronaut John Herrington, First Native American to Fly in Space (STS-113)
Astronaut John Herrington
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIj09zLWoAABE2C?format=jpg&name=medium
Nov. 5th
1928: Amelia Earhart, First Woman to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EInXUb9WoAAmQ73?format=jpg&name=medium
1967: ATS-3 Launched
ATS-3 Artist Rendering
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIn-AEZXYAIKy68?format=jpg&name=medium
1995: Galileo Mission Begins Surveying Jupiter
Galileo and Amalthea
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIouS5EWkAAOWoE?format=jpg&name=medium
Nov. 6
1958: Pilot John McKay Takes X-1E on its Final Flight
X-1E
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EItRb67WwAIxAAn?format=jpg&name=medium
X-1E Gate Guard
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIt6D_WUEAA4KUz?format=jpg&name=medium
Launch of X-1E
1980: Saturn’s Red Spot Photographed
Saturn’s Red Spot
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EItwGmvXkAEvkBR?format=jpg&name=small
2014: Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin Brings Olympic Torch Aboard ISS
Tyurin with Torch
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIyCh-RX0AEUOcc?format=jpg&name=medium
Nov. 7
1967: Surveyor 6 Launches
Launch Video
STS-51A Breaks Through Clouds
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI3I646XUAARvTa?format=jpg&name=medium
Nov. 9
1967: Saturn V Launches on Maiden Voyage with Apollo 4
Apollo 4 Launch
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kQjDRTAYf3y6W4szoQ6Qvj-650-80.jpg
Waz Up?
If Chaz is out, go to http://www.earthsky.org/tonight and read the info there.
Transit of Mercury
Worksheet 1
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Picture #3 Greatest Elongation
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/74881500_3787954544564034_7068932088023482368_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQkxvW49ayXZMb5x9-5Y37qeiazGDpg-XokrwWIc0D_HLf057VqoXgTRmD_9rBz6VSc&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=df998eb5447888cf8e80e8bd4589c767&oe=5E647DE7
Picture #4 – Great Elongation Chart
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/74617662_3787954514564037_7744429048096358400_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQninHfwQGf5t2rApo1LmT87OigmN3BENiMptYp2qF9HWc8jkbLkTVWV3870xW_cJRQ&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=4ebf9eb34297e03ccea4ffa62a7f6018&oe=5E5E4365
Picture #5 Latitude/Longitude Distance Calculator
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Picture #7 Expanded view of aligned images
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/74572857_10206975874312054_4317023237260181504_o.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_oc=AQkFNG2IHCXT4e3ppnCvm_mFNAtw5VhBuB3q6DIipSi-oQkbedVRX0CD5GtLK0rC-jU&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=095a90cb66dd5c6931d6fadcdd261334&oe=5E5EB3F0
Picture #8 – Apparent Size to Sun
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/75298455_3787954654564023_4972403416627150848_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_oc=AQkwO1X2wMRUAMDEUq6zpEiknlHVt4RgoO8O4F8p3ZhiBaGD4Flp0hEgg8gJcCNget8&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=086a1d677cc23d52865b9ba389c7a3e1&oe=5E4876CF
Picture #9 – Mercury Image Stacked Photo
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s960x960/75375532_3787954781230677_8893459350987735040_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQlXb-6NG3XKJ0oXfYq0H7V1weF0y3n7pCnCJx1ItrCU-UqF1ESvCMM5vIIVQhNOUkM&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=9ecac3ee6f382fb672bb9de35cf5cab7&oe=5E4ECFDF
Picture #10 – Overlay Image
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Space Launches For This Week
Space Coast Launches
Space Flight Now Launch Schedule
Recent Astronomical Discoveries
Voyager 2 Reaches Interstellar Space
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191104112823.htm?fbclid=IwAR0fuHwpIAiq44k3kexcGv7yYdQsayFhqO73dn4buNfk1YyFtOIvErjLLyU
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
ISS
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST
North Korean Satellite
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=39026&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST
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